#WebsiteWednesdays

Part of my personality is a love of learning. I really wish I had understood that back in my school days...but let me not digress.

I think that as adults we should all be learning - still. Whether we need to for our careers or just to keep our brains active or both. As we live our lives we should engage in continuing education. So today here's a few websites that encourage adult continuing education - give them a look and learn something new!

Here's a website I got turned on to when listening to the Undisclosed Podcast. This site offers SO MUCH! Cooking classes, creative classes, brainy classes, etc. It's worth checking out.

thegreatcourses.com

The Great Courses costs money to learn and if you don't have the budget don't worry! There are plenty of learning sites out there that offer continuing education for free.

25 free online learning sites

Here's the point - keep learning! Keep engaging your brain, don't stop! The cool thing about being an adult is you can choose what to learn - it could be knitting, rewiring an outlet, cooking an ethnic dish, or reviewing algebra (although I have no idea why...ha!) - just pick something and get your learning on! Thanks to technology it's accessible to all of us.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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